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Every year, winning Halloween is getting harder and harder. With people’s endless creativity and willingness to put a smile on everyone’s faces, making a good Halloween costume is an art form in itself.
And this year, just like previous years, people were more than happy to take it a step further when creating their spooky looks. From the Gossip Girl meme and the real-life Mr. Proper incarnation to Van Gogh’s sunflowers infamously vandalized by Just Stop Oil activists, there’s everything in this collection of insane Halloween costumes: 2022 edition–the sheer level of quirkiness and absolute relevance to the times we’re living in.
Scroll down to see what people came up with this year, and upvote your favorite eye-catchers that stole everyone’s hearts on this year’s Halloween.
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#1
Weather Reporter During Halloween
#2
We Get Told That We Look Alike All The Time, So This Costume Seemed Inevitable
#3
I Normally Don’t Make Halloween Costumes But I Love The Way This One Turned Out!
Henrik Niewiek 2 years ago
Attention all foundation personal, SCP-049 has breached containment. I repeat, SCP-049 has breached containment.
Lauren McMenemy, a south London-based writer of gothic-influenced folk horror and an editor of Trembling With Fear, HorrorTree.com’s weekly zine full of dark fiction stories, told Bored Panda that just like for many other horror aficionados, Halloween is her favorite time of year, “if only because I get to indulge all of my spookiness.” Lauren is also a creative coach with more than 20 years’ experience in journalism and marketing, and she is a host with the London Writers Salon’s daily virtual writers' hour sessions.
When it comes to celebrating Halloween, Lauren enjoys the creativity in a lot of house decorations you see at this time. “It’s not as prevalent where I live, but I do appreciate the efforts I see online. Did you see the family who had a floating Max from Stranger Things in their driveway?! That was awesome,” she said.
#4
Buying The Cool Costumes As An Adult That My Mom Couldn’t Afford To Get Me As A Kid
#5
My Halloween Costume !
Red Wyvern Emperor 2 years ago
OK, had I not known this was a halloween costume, I would actually guess it's her. XD
“Jack o’ lanterns are also a creative highlight - the efforts some go to with them are just incredible. Even trick-or-treating can encourage a community feeling. But there are also some of the really innocent party games that are fun, like bobbing for apples,” Lauren told Bored Panda and added that her husband grew up in the Middle East in the 1980s where “bobbing for apples at home was really the only Halloween tradition he could indulge in; he has very fond memories of it.”
#7
My Halloween Costume
#9
A Rockford Tree And Their Peaches
On the other hand, there are many Halloween skeptics who see the celebration as just another opportunity for excess consumerism and waste. Lauren argues that inevitably, when something becomes commercial, it can easily become overdone, tacky, or even ridiculous.
“There is quite a bit of this in Halloween these days - heck, I was on public transport on Saturday night with a lot of very drunk people in costumes! It is increasingly seen as a time to dress up and party.”
#10
Mr. Clean Made "Sponge" Cakes To Help Clean Up All The Blood This Halloween!
#11
My Halloween Costume
Phoenix Connor 2 years ago
Not sauron's eye! Run and hide! Hide in the short bushes in the dead marshes!
#12
We Were Told Next Year His Costume For The School Halloween Party Needs To Be A Little Less “Intense”
Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago
stop preventing kids from expressing themselves just because a few kids get scared. that is the point.
However, Lauren said she would ask critics of Halloween to look deeper than scratching the surface and look for the origins of the celebrations. Like many things, there is folklore and ancient traditions behind the scenes.”
In fact, “Halloween gets its beginnings in the ancient Celtic celebration of Samhain, where people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. This is, after all, the time when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest, and our ancestors had their own ways to try to ward off evil spirits looking to wreak havoc on their livelihoods,” Lauren explained.
#13
City Builds Multimillion Dollar Concrete Pillars, They Crack In 6 Months. Woman Dresses Up As One For Halloween. She Writes, "Just Wanted To Show My... "Support"!"
#14
Every Year, I’m Pam For Halloween. I Tell People It’s Just When I Can’t Find Another Costume, But In Reality I Never Try To
And for those who still think that Halloween is a modern invention, let us tell you that even trick-or-treating is centuries old. “It comes from the Scottish and Irish tradition of guising, where people would go from house to house and put on a small performance to be rewarded with food or treats. It’s definitely not as overblown as, say, Christmas!” Lauren concluded.
#16
Emperor’s New Groove Villains Yzma And Kronk
#18
My 4 Year Old Won The Halloween Contest In Our Town!
#19
Chocolate Lady From Spongebob Squarepants
#20
What Am I???
#21
Wife And I Won The Costume Contest At Our Friends Halloween Party
#22
I Made An Undead Strange Costume For Halloween This Year
Red Wyvern Emperor 2 years ago
For a second I thought one of the hand was holding the guitar and it was super awesome. Still is though. XD
#23
Spirited Away
#25
This Alien Costume
#26
Van Gogh’s Vandalized Sunflowers
Anony Mouse 2 years ago
About a week ago two climate change "activists" (aka jerky little kids) threw cans of tomato soup on a Van Gogh painting in a museum and then glued their hands to the wall. The painting was protected by glass, so just the frame got souped. They were arrested and probably enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame.
#27
Happy Halloween!
#28
The Princess And The Pea
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Its cut the most important part of the picture! Attached in full for your enjoyment. FgRP7R-WAA...a1dbdd.jpg 
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Angie Taylor 2 years ago
In case you don’t live in the U.S., where there is a CVS pharmacy in about every town…their receipts come out ridiculously long because they have a bunch of coupons on the end. So many people can relate to that moment where you are waiting for the ridiculously long receipt to print when you run in to buy a soda, making this an amazing costume idea!
#32
Lisa Rinna
#33
My Last Minute Halloween Costume, Hahahaha
#35
Sexy Steve Harvey
#36
This Clapback Costume
#38
The Gossip Girl Meme
#40
Pretty Woman
#41
Acnh Switch Controllers! We Won Cutest Costume At A Halloween Party
#42
Shrek
#43
Lisa Rinna
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What do you think ?
Ottawa 2 years ago
Well, I must be getting old or something because I couldn't make out who/what many of these costumes were supposed to be and in other cases, i never would have known if a picture of the show/movie wouldn't have been there.
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
Some of these were amazingly imaginative. Most of them, not so much.
Nikki Angulo 2 years ago
I saw a good one this year, it was a kids with and open zipper stuck to his face, closed at the forehead then open and going down the nose and his cheeks with blood coloured makeup in the open part. I don't know how the zipper was attached, but it looked like part of his face! It was cool!
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 month ago (edited)
IN 2010 I worked for Rosanna, Inc. in Seattle. For that year's Halloween Costume Contest, I dressed as a Hell's Angel. Had the leather pants & a pair of Docs, borrowed my brother's cut and a Metallica (?) shirt from the hubs. Also a black & purple wig. Found tattooed "sleeves", black feathered wings & a Halo, and a biker's cap at Value Village. I wore my mirrored riding glasses into the building and had one of our newest employees come running up to me saying, "Um. We're not open to the public and you can't be in here." So, I'm assuring her that I can, in fact, be there. She keeps insisting - I lowered my glasses and said, "If you want your f*cking paycheck, you might want to get the hell out of my way". She STILL didn't recognize me. My supervisor had to come out of her office (once she could stop laughing) to let her know that, YES, I did actually work there.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 month ago
The following year (2011) I was a Pirate. Captain Cordelia Crowe, as a matter of fact, Jack Sparrow's cousin. I did the weird hand things and slurred quite a lot. 001-6700d1...7a4d7a.jpg 
Vanessa Smith 2 years ago
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWi6inPpY8/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= She nails it in my book
Stealthzilla 2 years ago
I wish I got to go to more costume contests, most were cancelled or we couldn’t make it, I won $25 at one but I mostly just wanted to take my costume out more, we just couldn’t find enough events
Ottawa 2 years ago
Well, I must be getting old or something because I couldn't make out who/what many of these costumes were supposed to be and in other cases, i never would have known if a picture of the show/movie wouldn't have been there.
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
Some of these were amazingly imaginative. Most of them, not so much.
Nikki Angulo 2 years ago
I saw a good one this year, it was a kids with and open zipper stuck to his face, closed at the forehead then open and going down the nose and his cheeks with blood coloured makeup in the open part. I don't know how the zipper was attached, but it looked like part of his face! It was cool!
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 month ago (edited)
IN 2010 I worked for Rosanna, Inc. in Seattle. For that year's Halloween Costume Contest, I dressed as a Hell's Angel. Had the leather pants & a pair of Docs, borrowed my brother's cut and a Metallica (?) shirt from the hubs. Also a black & purple wig. Found tattooed "sleeves", black feathered wings & a Halo, and a biker's cap at Value Village. I wore my mirrored riding glasses into the building and had one of our newest employees come running up to me saying, "Um. We're not open to the public and you can't be in here." So, I'm assuring her that I can, in fact, be there. She keeps insisting - I lowered my glasses and said, "If you want your f*cking paycheck, you might want to get the hell out of my way". She STILL didn't recognize me. My supervisor had to come out of her office (once she could stop laughing) to let her know that, YES, I did actually work there.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 month ago
The following year (2011) I was a Pirate. Captain Cordelia Crowe, as a matter of fact, Jack Sparrow's cousin. I did the weird hand things and slurred quite a lot. 001-6700d1...7a4d7a.jpg
Vanessa Smith 2 years ago
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWi6inPpY8/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= She nails it in my book
Stealthzilla 2 years ago
I wish I got to go to more costume contests, most were cancelled or we couldn’t make it, I won $25 at one but I mostly just wanted to take my costume out more, we just couldn’t find enough events
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